The Twilight Zone
Opening Night: December 5, 2017
Closing: January 27, 2018
Theater: Almeida Theatre
Between light and shadow, science and superstition, fear and knowledge is a dimension of imagination. An area we call the Twilight Zone. Adapted by Anne Washburn (Mr Burns) and directed by Olivier Award-winner Richard Jones, this world premiere production of the acclaimed CBS Television Series The Twilight Zone lands on stage for the first time in its history. Or its present. Or its future. Stage magic and fantasy unite as the ordinary becomes extraordinary.
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December 14, 2017
LONDON — If ever it felt appropriate to revisit “The Twilight Zone,” that moment is now. We live in strange, disorienting times, but without a Rod Serling, the debonair mastermind behind the CBS television series, to set the scene for us as he did so trenchantly more than 50 years ago.
So you can practically hear a collective purr of delight when those famous four opening notes of the series’s theme song are heard at the very end of the American writer Anne Washburn’s stage adaptation of “The Twilight Zone,” which opened Tuesday at the Almeida Theater in north London (through Jan. 27).
What an audience will make of the preceding two and a half hours may depend on its willingness to let a sermon invade the spook house. There was nearly always a civilizing message of sorts underpinning each episode in the TV series, which referenced other realms to say something about the troublesome one inhabited by humans.
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